Would QT Pro & the MPEG2 plugin allow me to use MPEG2 as an input to iDVD & iMovie?

[Thomas Harte]

The title more or less says it all. All I can figure out from the Apple website is that Quicktime Pro enables some format conversion and copy/paste features in the Quicktime player, and the MPEG2 plugin allows the player to play back MPEG2, but I'm also aware that iMovie and iDVD are built on top of Quicktime so I'm a little confused.

I know that free options, like ffmpegx, would allow me to convert my mpeg2 files to something that iDVD and iMovie would accept, but I'm willing to pay if I can cut out a step and/or avoid at least one re-encoding.

 

[Gymnut]

I don't believe just by adding the Quicktime MPEG-2 codec will enable you to cut out the process of converting the mpeg files to DV. The mpeg-2 plugin will only permit playback of mpeg-2 video files. You cannot compress or edit movies without converting the files into a format iMovie can read.